ISRAELA Massive Blow to Peace
Tensions rose inexorably in the Middle East after Israeli helicopters launched
a missile attack on the West Bank offices of the Palestinian militant group Hamas,
killing eight. Two of the dead  Jamal Mansour, the top Hamas official in the
West Bank, and his deputy Jamal Salim  were decapitated by the missiles, which
plowed through the third-floor offices. Israel blames their network for terrorist
attacks that killed 37 Israelis. Two Palestinian children, brothers aged five
and eight, were killed by...